Our new site design has appeared on NOTCOT.ORG. It has been a long time coming to get Hustlewood up and running. Now that it’s launched, it’s great to know that the people we have helped out are liking more then our site but our ideas. Thanks AdamParkerSmith for the showing us some love.
No, not FDR’s new deal.
Our new deal. Should have the same effects on depression, though.
We’re a small company. And we want to help out other small-ish companies by giving them a break with some friend pricing. For the indefinite future, we’ll be taking on up to two “friend” website projects per month for half the price that we’d normally charge. We’ll charge you a flat fee for a fairly kick-ass website. We’d like to put the price up here but we don’t want to seem easy.
In exchange for the flat friend fee, you’ve got to do your part and act like a friend. You know, play nice. Get back to us quickly. Be open to new things. Come to our office and hang out. Drink the last of the milk and put it back in the fridge. That kind of thing. You should be in Chicago because it’s expensive to travel. Makes it hard to give friend prices, dig?
So give us a holler at 312.929.4548 or fire an email our way.
Here’s our portfolio (big PDF, look out) if you want to see what we’ve done.
Last weekend, Hustlewood went to Barnsley Gardens, just north of Atlanta (Adairsville, Georgia, to be specific) to meet with a couple clients and some other folks who might be interested in what we do. We stayed for two nights in a quad-room house. And in short, Barnsley Gardens is one of the most spectacular places we’ve ever been.
The three pictures above are all also on our Flickr page. They’re of the original Barnsley family ruins, which are the centerpiece for the resort. The original Italianate villa was built in 1842 as a refuge for Godfrey Barnsley’s ailing wife, Julia Scarborough. But in 1906, the roof was torn off by a tornado and the villa was never fully repaired. It’s breathtaking. The rest of the resort features individual cottages that serve as guest rooms, excellent food, wine & scotch and a great little golf course (though Hustlewood didn’t get a chance to play it). Anyway, it’s fantastic and if you need to get away you should check it out.
Our meetings went very well, both with Train Strong (we discussed the new apparel line, the new website and the Advanced Performance program) and with our friends at DGTrials. We’re working with them on a super top-secret program that is set to launch in October. Stay tuned for that, as well as the new trainstrong.com site that should launch this Saturday, 7/7/7.
This is our new table. We plan, like other agencies that we admire, to work on one big table, instead of at little desks. Desks suck. Big, butcherblock tables with natural steel legs are cool. If you can’t be inspired sitting at this table, you’re crazy. We’re getting our “Parsons” table delivered from Room & Board, in Chicago, and it’s 78″ x 42″. Just right for three folks. When/if we grow we’ll have to grab us another one. It was not cheap. But besides the computers, and the chairs, this is the most important part of the office. Not a place to scrimp.
And our new couches, from Rowe, by way of Roy’s Furniture Company in Chicago. They’re called “Berkeley“, which we like. Ours will be brownish. We got two.
Just in case you were wondering how we plan to set this thing up, here’s the layout.
We’ve been really busy with our new office. Here’s the before pictures. It’s located at 500 W. Cermak Rd., in between Pilsen and Chinatown. It’s a pretty gritty neighborhood but it’s coming up. And the rent is cheap. We’ll have a full renovation report soon, as well as a note regarding the history of our nearly 100-year-old building. We think it’s pretty cute that we’re on the corner of Cermak & Lumber, especially considering our name.
This is the first post. Our goal is to help companies create beautiful, engaging brands that communicate with people. If that sounds pretty good, holler@hustlewood.com.
